Cofounders, Hiring and Firing

New York Spring 2013 Semester

What talent do you need in the beginning to be successful? How do you recruit the first team members with extremely limited resources? How do you conduct a thorough interviewing process? How do you compensate? How do you set expectations, measure results and remove or fire under-performing resources? Do you need a cofounder? Do you need to have engineering in-house?

Goal:

Recruit your first team members.

Date:

2013-05-02, 03:30 PM

Mentors

Shahab Kaviani Co-Founder, Chief Entrepreneurs Office, CoFoundersLab

Shahab Kaviani Co-Founder and CMO at Onevest, a startup investment platform. Prior to Onevest, he was Co-Founder and CEO of CoFoundersLab, where he pursued his passion to accelerate business formation by building strong founding teams using an online co-founder matching ...

Saul Orbach Managing Director, The Beachhead Group

Saul Orbach is a seasoned management professional with over 25 years of executive leadership experience in ‘turning vision into reality’ and managing companies and business projects. He is accomplished in launching and building startups, building emerging growth companies...

Charlie Kim Founder & CEO, Next Jump

Charlie founded Next Jump in 1994 in his college dorm room while going through school on financial aid. Next Jump grew through the first dot-com bubble to 150 employees, and survived the dot-com bust atering shrinking down to 4 employees in January 2002. The company becam...

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